From a video review I’ve heard that the horse riding controls are a bit finicky, even if the horse animations are the best in a game so far.
My Xbox is currently bricked, but Microsoft says that they’ve fixed/replaced it and are shipping it back - with luck, it’ll be back in time for the PAL release date in a few days.
I’m staring at my copy wistfully here at work. Between this and Alan Wake, I have a feeling a lot of people will start coming down with colds very soon.
I might go after a few more bounties tonight, and then jump on for some free roamin’.
I really gotta make an effort to finish up ME2 by the end of the month so I can order this game. Hopefully we can get some posses going
Done a little bit of fooling around. The voice acting is good–the Marshall, in particular, nailed it–and it’s got a sense of humor without being a comedy. The horseback riding is a bit touchy, no doubt about it. Part of it, for me, is needing to get the muscle memory down to go for R1 when I need to stop/slow down. I’ve galloped right past a few random encounters because I was too busy fumbling with the controls to stop for them.
I’ve been having a lot of fun just wandering around, seeing what trouble I can get into. Mind you, the fact that your actions have some sort of consequences, and that you aren’t playing as an unreformed outlaw like in GTA, has kept me from doing anything too terribly bad without promptly reloading a clean save. But I do so want to rob a train… then tie a nun to the tracks…
Yeah, I’ll probably play it like Fable–be really really good for the first playthrough, then do whatever I feel like for the rest.
What is up with all the DLC? Do I need to get all this crap to play multiplayer and stuff?
The only DLC I’m aware of for this one is a coop thing coming out for free a little later. I’m playing multiplayer right out of the box, no issues.
There are a ton of free DLC items available that sound like the they should just be part of the standard game, like competitive multiplayer and such. I downloaded one of them but there are several that seem to involve multiplayer that I didn’t get. In a possibly related story, multiplayer is seriously broken. Of course, so was the GTA4 multiplayer, so I am not totally surprised.
This looks brilliant - adding to the list of games to buy immediately upon getting a PS3 when we get home in a few months.
Arstechnica is saying the x360 version looks better and has less glitches. Not surprising I suppose, given how notoriously annoying it is to program for the Cell.
Well we finally got multiplayer to work - at least a private free roam game - after I downloaded all the DLC, hosted a session, and invited everyone. What a PITA, and exactly like the crapola I had to do for GTA4. Plus, trying to meet up with your group is ridiculously harder than it needs to be. Everyone in my posse on my map was a white dot, which I am assuming is a bug because very occasionally they would have different colors, as they should be. Getting in the same area proved to be annoying as well, since the teleporting system only lets you jump from town to town, so it took a loooooong time to get the group fighting together. Once we did, it took me a little bit to be able to decipher the radar, which has kind of a jumble of UI. Once I realized the stars were the enemies, it was much easier and I quickly became a public enemy, then got killed. It took about 1.5 hours, but it finally became fun. Didn’t get to try 1-player, I assume that is a little easier to get into.
Just my initial reactions
I played a little free roam last night, and it was just a PVP deathmatch pretty much. I’m going to need someone a bit more intelligent than myself to explain how the multiplayer works.
And I ran into a weird bug in single player. Everything that was cart-drawn (wagons, carriages, etc.) sounded and was going through the motion as if it were moving, even when they’re just standing still. So you’d ride into town, and there would be the horse and carriage waiting for you at the taxi stand, but it already sounded like and bounced like it was moving, but it was stationary. This wouldn’t have been too bad, but I noticed it during the mission where you have to take Seth and his three “companions” for a ride in a wagon drawn by two horses. I crawled into the bouncing, chugging wagon, and cracked the reigns, and the cart wouldn’t go anywhere. Seth was in the back screaming at me to slow down, but yet we hadn’t moved an inch. I tried to reload my save, ride off on my horse and come back, and nothing worked. So I eventually shot one of the horses, and that seemed to fix it, and we went on our journey, minus one horse.
The bouncing was so bad, that in one town I saw a wagon bouncing west-coast LA lowrider style, until the bounces became more and more violent, eventually shooting the cart and wagon straight up into the air, never to be seen from again.
Ya I ran into numerous bugs as well. The most egregious - at one point the avatar I was controlling vanished. I could see the footsteps I was leaving in the sand, but I couldn’t see my player at all. Other people didn’t seem to have that problem, though, cuz I got shot up pretty good. Overall this game is way buggier than I was hoping.
A few of the reviews have mentioned the odd bug here and there, but maintain that they aren’t enough to detract from the experience.
I’ve just preordered off Amazon, which will apparently give me a ‘golden guns’ code which’ll increase my fame with each kill. Hopefully my Xbox is back by the time the game arrives…
Getting a lot of network drops in multiplayer now too. It connects, then kicks me out saying “A network connection was lost” and puts me back into single player. Sucked too, because I finally teamed up with someone who was more interested in taking out a posse who was holed-up in a gulch, than just shooting anyone who comes up to them.
The clip of the nun being hogtied and dropped on the rails has the protagonist making sharp turns when moving slowly.
This happened to me CONSTANTLY. Didn’t stop until I both downloaded all the free multiplayer “DLC” (which I strongly suspect are really patches disguised as DLC) and started a private free-roam. Then it ran smoothly. But that doesn’t help much if you want to form a posse of friends to do pvp against other posses.
What platform are you using? I didn’t see any DLC for the 360 other than themes and trailers and such. I’m not having any problems with private matches. But I wants me some hot public action.